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Ausmed Education Learning Centre is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

The standards developed by the ANCC are the highest and most rigorous in the world, and this accreditation means that you can be sure that all nursing education available through The Learning Centre meets or exceeds these high standards. Ausmed Education's provider number is P0342.Learn more about ANCC accreditation.

Lists of where information, education and community
connections can be found

Describes how respite can be provided through volunteers and
other support networks including counselling and care and where to
find these

Explains where equipment for caring for an older person at
home can be found

Provides a guideline on how to complain if dissatisfaction
occurs within the health-care system

This chapter gives a general overview of the resources that are
available to assist older people who are approaching the ends of their
lives, and those who care for them (family members, other carers and
members of aged care teams). Because the availability of resources
differs from place to place, readers are encouraged to seek further
details about resources in their own local areas as well as this
chapter.

Author / Editor Biographies

Dr Rosalie Hudson's varied nursing career is focused on aged care, dementia care and palliative care. As a consultant nurse educator, with qualifications in theology, she explores end-of-life issues for older people; as an author, teacher and associate professor with the University of Melbourne, she seeks to raise the profile of gerontic nursing. Rosalie has had twelve years of experience as a director of nursing of a 50-bed nursing home, as well as extensive experience in community nursing practice.

Professor Margaret O’Connor is the inaugural Professor of Nursing at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Prior to this she was the Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Palliative Care Nursing at Monash University, where she established and led a successful Palliative Care Research Team. Margaret’s research has been widely published, concentrating on models of palliative care , issues of culture and the end of life needs of particular population groups. From 2006 to 2011 Margaret served as the President of Palliative Care Australia and in 2005 she was made a member of the Order of Australia for h...

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